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NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 22: LaVar Ball, father of second overall pick Lonzo Ball of the Los Angeles Lakers, speaks to media during the first round of the 2017 NBA Draft at Barclays Center on June 22, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Mike Stobe/Getty Images)

Posted: 6:29 a.m. Wednesday, November 22, 2017

President Donald Trump took to Twitter the morning during his first full day in Palm Beach to share his thoughts on NBA personality LaVar Ball and the NFL.

In a trio of tweets sent around 5:30 a.m., Trump addressed LaVar Ball, the father of Lakers rookie Lonzo Ball, as well as a rumored NFL rule change that would keep players in the locker room during the National Anthem.

Trump and Ball have engaged in a verbal back-and-forth since the president took credit for freeing Ball’s son, LiAngelo, from a Chinese jail after he, and two of his teammates on the UCLA basketball team, were arrested for allegedly shoplifting from a mall in China.

Trump seemed to take issue with LaVar Ball’s recent CNN interview in which Ball was dismissive of Trump’s role in his son’s release from jail. In the tweets, the president referred to LaVar as “a poor man’s version of Don King,” and called him an “ungrateful fool.”

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President Trump also sent out a tweet about an alleged change to an NFL policy that would keep teams in the locker room during the National Anthem. He shot down the proposed strategy to curtail anthem protests, calling it “almost as bad as kneeling” and challenged NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to “get tough and smart.”

The NFL is now thinking about a new idea - keeping teams in the Locker Room during the National Anthem next season. That’s almost as bad as kneeling! When will the highly paid Commissioner finally get tough and smart? This issue is killing your league!.....

...LaVar, you could have spent the next 5 to 10 years during Thanksgiving with your son in China, but no NBA contract to support you. But remember LaVar, shoplifting is NOT a little thing. It’s a really big deal, especially in China. Ungrateful fool!

It wasn’t the White House, it wasn’t the State Department, it wasn’t father LaVar’s so-called people on the ground in China that got his son out of a long term prison sentence - IT WAS ME. Too bad! LaVar is just a poor man’s version of Don King, but without the hair. Just think..

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